Word: deployment
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...first major sign of change came when Italy unequivocally agreed to deploy new U.S. medium-range nuclear missiles designed to counter the 300 Soviet SS-20s aimed at Western Europe. Italy thereby met West Germany's condition that at least one other Continental nation take the new weapons. Though Britain, Belgium and The Netherlands also subsequently agreed, Italy is the only country in which the decision is not being seriously challenged by peace movements...
...keep an eye on South Asia and the Middle East; and in Europe it had to maintain forces larger than those facing China. Hence, Mao concluded, the Soviet Union could not attack China "unless you first give them the Middle East and Europe so they are able to deploy troops eastward." The converse was also true. The U.S. was thus the key to global security. The real danger was the potential victims' lack of understanding of the requirements of the geopolitical balance. It was Mao's core conviction that while our European allies were wavering for various reasons...
...hostage crisis in Iran further served to rid the country of its post-Vietnam guilt. Instead of seeing the immorality of propping up the dictatorial shah, Americans learned only that we should "overcome our reticence, develop more destructive strategic weapons, deploy forces prepared for rapid intervention throughout the world, 'unleash' the CIA, and otherwise demonstrate our pugnacity." He sums...
...decade of the 1970s came to an inauspicious end, NATO, under U.S. pressure, agreed to deploy in Western Europe new advanced missiles targeted against the Soviet Union, the USSR invaded Afghanistan and the Carter Doctrine was proclaimed, calling for still further increases in the military budget, including not only intervention forces but also preparations for a peacetime draft and the MX missile system...a major contribution to an escalating arms race. War clouds are gathering. We entering a period of what some are calling "The New Cold...
...Fort Benning, about 500 other Salvadoran trainees last month began a combined 14-week basic training and officers candidate course. American soldiers normally spend 38 weeks in these courses, emerging as combat infantry platoon leaders. The special program puts a high emphasis on tactics: how to deploy men in combat, techniques of patrol and arranging fields of fire to provide the best defensive protection...